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Teachers assistants aren't simply nice-to-have extras. Increasingly they're indispensable. In Emily Myers-Rice's integrated intermediate special education classroom room in Mesa, Arizona, instructional aide Toni Atchison is tutoring five students in [...]

One school employee can sometimes make a difference for a student. More often than not, it's a team of educators that makes the difference, a team that can focus on [...]

Those calling for education reform 10 years ago were explicit: teacher salaries must go up if education quality is to improve. A decade later, while thousands of teachers still make [...]

Teaching has always been an exhausting profession, and efforts now underway to involve teachers more actively in school decision making are making it harder to get everything done. Still, some [...]

A few lucky schools have private godmothers to help them live up to their potential. But inevitably, midnight still comes when the grant runs out. In Guilford, Maine, the foundation [...]

Teachers in Griswold, Connecticut were instrumental in getting their schools wired for the 21st century - and their community on board for learning. In 1991, Griswold's 1,980 students piled into [...]

Here - from Battle Creek to Virginia Beach - are the latest projects to receive NEA grants to improve urban education. Since 1985, NEA has offered help to urban affiliates [...]

Are we talking about an epidemic here? Yes - in fact, we're talking about more than one. There are about 12 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases diagnosed each [...]

Information about health factors that affect the way students learn A former smoker, Michael Eriksen now directs the Office on Smoking and Health in the U.S. Department of Health and [...]

Most kids seem down at one time or another. While some just need a friendly shoulder to lean on, others need medical help. How can you tell the difference? Is [...]

In 1977, Mary Oetzel was diagnosed with an environmental illness, resulting from 'multiple chemical sensitivities.' This spurred her to research environmental issues, and today she is president of Environmental Education [...]

This Alaska pipeline has nothing to do with oil. Instead, a science teacher pumps chemistry lessons--via computer--to students all over the state. Chemistry teacher Linda Kadrlik has a teeny problem [...]

How do children commonly react when their parents divorce? It depends very much on whether the children have been prepared for what's happening with the family. Younger children are often [...]

What's required on the new labels? The labels are required to tell the total caloric content in a defined portion and the percentage of those calories derived from protein, carbohydrates, [...]

With help fro, NEA and other organization, educators are working to develop a consensus on how to successfully integrate students with special needs. 'There may be no single educational innovation [...]

In Pinellas County, Florida, fifth graders go to the mall to learn. Selling, shopping, retrieving products from warehouses, preparing advertising--it's all in a day's work at Enterprise Village, an 18,000 [...]

Modeled after a teaching hospital, Holt High School is a center for state-of-the-art teaching, educational research, teacher training, and cross-fertilization between the university and the classroom. In a good teaching [...]

'I frankly never thought that a Puerto Rican former high school dropout who grew up on welfare would be welcomed by corporate America in helping to solve any problem,' acknowledges [...]

When Chelsea Clinton took part in a program for gifted students in math and science, her parents saw how effective it was. Now, a few years later, the program's expanded [...]

No surprise. No controversy. President Clinton's decision to pick former South Carolina Governor Richard Riley as Secretary of Education got rave reviews from virtually all quarters. With good reason. The [...]

One of a Kind Here's a K-12 school where you won't find bells, a PA system, or (get this) teachers on lunchroom duty. What you will find is a commitment [...]

Innovation wears many faces in the Paulding County schools, where research is being applied to meet the needs of the county's 8,100-plus students. Very basic is the school system's America [...]